William Shatner Gets Emotional to Jeff Bezos Over Space Ride

It wasn’t that long ago that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Blue Origin, made his shuttle flight to space.

This week Star Trek actor William Shatner, who played in the original series as Capt. Kirk, took a spaceflight to the edge of space.

It was all thanks to Bezos, who launched Shatner as well as three others in a New Shepard rocket on Wednesday.

Shatner became emotional about the ride and described it to be Bezos as “the most profound experience.”

The Canadian actor also described the flight as “unbelievable” and something that “everybody in the world needs to do.”

Shatner believes that it is “so important for everyone to have this experience.”

“What you’ve given me is the most profound experience I can imagine,” he said to Bezos. “It was so moving to me,” he added.

Shatner went on to say, “I mean, the little things, the weightlessness, and to see the blue color whip by and now you’re staring into blackness. That’s the thing. This covering of blue is this sheet, this blanket, this comforter of blue around that we have around us. We think ‘oh, that’s blue sky’ and suddenly you shoot through it all of a sudden, like you whip a sheet off you when you’re asleep, and you’re looking into blackness – into black ugliness. And you look down, there’s the blue down there, and the black up there, and there is Mother Earth and comfort and – is there death? Is that the way death is?”

“It was so moving to me. This experience; it was something unbelievable. Yeah, weightlessness, my stomach went out, this was so weird, but not as weird as the covering of blue – this is what I never expected. It’s one thing to say “oh the sky … and it’s fragile,” it’s all true. But what isn’t true, what is unknown, until you do [go to space] is this pillow, there’s this soft blue. Look at the beauty of that color. And it’s so thin and you’re through it in an instant. How thick is it? Is it a mile?” he continued.

Bezos responded, “The atmosphere, it depends on how you measure because how it thins out, maybe 50 miles.”

“So you’re through 50 miles … suddenly you’re through the blue and you’re into black … it’s mysterious and galaxies and things, but what you see is black, and what you see down there is light, and that’s the difference,” said the Star Trek actor.

Shatner remarked to Bezos, “And not to have this? You have done something … what you’ve given me is the most profound experience I can imagine. I am so filled with emotion about what just happened. It’s extraordinary. I hope I never recover from this. I hope that I can maintain what I feel now, I don’t want to lose it. It’s so much larger than me and life; it hasn’t got anything to do with the little green and blue orb. It has to do with the enormity and the quickness and the suddenness of life and death. Oh my god, it’s unbelievable.”

Bezos agreed and said, “It’s so beautiful.”

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